Sanitary shaving-mug.



J. B. RUDOLPH. SANITARY SHAVING MUG.

APPLICATION IILED r3311. 1911.

1,072,994, Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

WITNESSES [72 J6. gvjswoe g4 0 7 8772/72 MM I By 'ATTORNEYS onrrnn sTA'rrJs PATENT onrroii.

JOHN BERNHARDT RUDOLPH, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

SANITARY SHAvING-MUG.'

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN BERNHARDT RUDOLPH, a citizen of the United States,

and a resident of Jersey City, in the county readily drain off the soap into a separate water reservoir.

A further object of my invention is to provide a handle to such a device, so constructed and I positioned that it cannot readily be broken from the body of the mug. I A further object of my invention is to so construct the mug, that the preparation of the lather is done' from the side of the mug and not from the top as is common in the ordinary form of shaving mugs.

A further ob ect of my inventlon is to provide a cup having a scraping surface, the

,outline of which" is substantially the configuration of part of the brush and so disposed and arranged that the surplus. lather will drop into the water reservoir and not back on the soap.

A still further object of my device is to provide means whereby the'surplus Water about the soap will readily be drawn off, leaving the soap dry. Another object of my invention is to so arrange the relative positions of the soapcontaining compartment and the hot water compartment, that access may be gained to the soap-containing compartment without passing the brush'through or into the hot water compartment l/Vith the above and other objects in view, as will more fully hereinafter appear, the present invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed outin the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of ref erence indicate corresponding parts in all the figures, and in which 7 Figure 1 is. a perspective view looking Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed [February 4, 1911. Serial No. 606,519.

Patented Sept. 9, 1913.

down from the front and showing a preferred embodiment of my invention; F ig. 2 is a similar view but looking down from the rearof the mug; and Fig, 3 is a transverse sectional view taken vertically through the mug.

In'the device as disclosed, I have shown a hollow cup or mug, preferably of a general cylindrical form havin a rear portion 1 and a front portion 2. lhe rear portion is recessed at 3 on opposite sides of a medial line, whichrecesses unite within the rear wall of the mug to leave part of the wall in the form of a handle 4, which handle will of course be in the plane of the curvature of the rear of the mug, such arrangement permitting the ready packing of a number of mugs on a shelf or in a box without the possibility of the projecting handles breaking off. This arrangement of depressed handle will keep the hand out of contact with the lather which may overflow from the cup,

thereby preventing the hands from coming in contact with the lather or contacting with the upper edgeof the mug.

Interiorly, the mug is divided by a trans verse partition 5, which extends from the upper edge 6 to a short distance above the bottom 7 of the mug. Thispartition has a centrally-disposed opening 8 extending from theupper edge 6 and converging downward atan angle to meet the curved bottom 9 of the soap receptacle. This soap receptacle occupies substantiallyone-half of the mug in rear of the transverse partition 5, and

comprises a downwardly and inwardly-inclined back surface 10 merging into a substantially U-shaped bottom surface 11, which occupies the space between the back portion 10 and the spaced-apart projections formed by the recess 8 in the partition 5. The back 10 is preferably flat and has acircular recess 12 disposed centrally therein, and has a number of radiating depressions 13 extend ing diametrically outward from the recess 12 to the circular edge of the back 10. These depressions afford means for draining the water and acid from the soap, which soap-fits between the partition 5 and the back 10, and is prevented from sliding into the water reservoir 14 by said partition.

Diametrically opposite the center of the back 10 and in a line with the opening 8 between the partsof the partition 5, the front side 2 of the mug is recessed, to form a brush-receiving aperture 15 formed by curvsoap receiving compartment so that the overthe soap-containing flowing of the water reservoir will not flood compartment. The lower part of the curvature of this opening substantially conforms to the configuration of the side of a brush, so that the brush can rest u 3011. the lower edge 16 and will extend into the mug over the water compartment 14, to contact with the cake of soap in the soap-containing compartment. This edge 16 'may also be used as a scraping edge to re move the surplus lather which may adhere to the sides of the brush. It will be seen that by this arrangement it is not likely that the lather will rise above the upper edge of the mug to overflow, and, further, it will be seen that any water left on the soap will drain down into the water compartment 1e, thereby leaving the soap clean and dry, and,- at the same time, there is afforded a i'eservoir of water in the space 14, to again wet the brush should a further lather be desired.

As the water is not left in contactwith the soap but is. drained oil", the possibility of dissolving the soap by carelessness in leaving the soap in contact with water, is eliminated. Further, by the arrangement of the curved bottom 9, it is possible to use not only soap but also. shaving powder in the mug. Further, it is seen that there are no sharp points or corners in which dirt 'may'collect, the whole device being formed substantially of Wide curved surfaces, which may readily be cleaned by merely holding the'mug under running water.

Many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof.

It isintend'ed that all matters contained herein, in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claims isjmerely intended to cover all the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and allstatements of the scope of the inveiition, whicli, as 'a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween, and that materials, sizes and relativit-ies of parts are non-essential, except as called forin the claims.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent v V t 1. A shaving mug having a centrally-chsposed vertical partition to form a water-rement, whereby water will readily drain from V the "soap-receiving compartment to the waterq'eceiving compartment, said partition being recessed from its upper edge convergently downward to permit access to said soap-receiving compartment, the side or said? water-receiving compartment being recesset in line with the recess in said part tion, whereby access may be obta ned to said soapreceiving compartment from the side of the mug. V

2. A shaving. mug having a flat bottom and a vertically disposed partition therein forming a water-containing and a soap-containing compartment, said soap-containing compartment having a SOllQl bottom extend ing above the bottom of said water-contain- 7 ing compartment to render the mug stable,

the rear wall of said soap-containingzcom.

partment increasing in cross section from the top to said solid bottom, said rear Wall and solid bottoin having a pair of spaced apart vertically disposed recesses uniting to.

form a handle within the *circumscribing outline of said mug, said rear wallre nforcmg the portion of the mug weakened bysaid recesses.

3. A shavin mu having aoartition therea g h in to form a water-containing a soapc'ont-aining compartment, said soap-contaming compartment having a substantially U shaped bottom surface and a downwardly and inwardly=inclined back surface, said partition having a centrally disposed recess therein extending from the top thereofto the bottom of said soap-containing compartg nient afiording access thereto and forming spaced apart projections to retain the s'oap in the soap-containing compartment, said bottom and back surfaces;maintaining the soap in a vertical position irrespective )filts name to this specification in two subscribing witnesses.

liVitnesses H "W. S. Oirroiv, PHILIP D. RoLLHaiis'.

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